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LTR Completes Successful Trial of Barrier to Reading
Monday 9th March 2020
JH
Between April and December 2019, LTR has partnered with 7 Ipswich school to investigate the impact of some conditions which may inhibit children's reading abilities and perhaps affect their behaviours. There are many conditions to be considered, but for this particular…
LTR Sets up Links with new Social Prescribing Initiative
Monday 9th March 2020
JH
LTR met recently with key staff from Citizens Advice Bureau to link its activities to the Social Prescribing initiative being rolled out across Ipswich. CAB has taken responsibility for linking every doctor's surgery in Ipswich to organisations which can provide patients with non-medical help. LTR has been particularly keen to link surgeries to the services provided by Read Easy Ipswich and…
Children Reading less than Ever Before
Monday 2nd March 2020
Guardian, 29th Feb 2020
Children today read less frequently than any previous generation and enjoy reading less than young people did in the past, according to new research. The work, to be published by the National Literacy Trust in the run-up to World Book Day on Thursday, shows that in 2019 just 26% of under-18s spent some time each day reading. This is the lowest daily level recorded since the charity first surveyed children's reading habits in 2005. It also found that fewer children enjoy reading, and that this dwindled with age: nearly twice as many five to eight-year-olds as 14 to 16-year-olds said they took pleasure from reading. Overall, just 53% of children said…